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E. S. TORREY, OF NEW YORK, Nfl.

Letters Patent No. 81,228, dated August 18, 1868.

IMPROVED WEATHER-STRIP.

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Be it known thatnI, ES. TURKEY, ofthe city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Construction of Weather-Strips for Windows, Doors, 8vo.; and I do hereby declare and ascertain my said invention, referring to the accompanying drawing, which represents my said improvement.

Heretofore numerous specific modes of construction have been devised for weather-strips, formed by a combination of elastic with rigid substances, such as wood and Indiarrubber, dto., undl it has been :t constant aim to make the merchantable article as light and Asmall as possible, consistent with-strength and durability.A This has been suiciently-Well effected in devices that I, as well as Gilroy', have heretofore made; but when, as is sometimes desirable, it is required to insert India rubber on two facesof the moulding', ifthey are both inserted into a. saw-kerf or deep narrow groove, the moulding is injuriously weakened, or is too large and clumsy.

I have avoided both these defectsby my present mode of construction, and form a delicate, and, at the same time, strong weather-strip, having all the advantages of un India-rubber packing on two sides.` For lthis purpose, I form my moulding for an angle, as clearly seen at a in the drawing. `On the u nattached face', I cut an A inclined groove, and insert a narrow strip ofIndia rubber, as clearly seen, inthe drawing, and as heretofore employed by me in my manufacture of weather-strips. On the straight face of the moulding, c, that is, in con tact with the surface to which the moulding is aiiixed, I Aform a shallow dove-tailod groove, into which I spring a strip of India rubber, alittle broader than the groove, so that it will bulge out in-curved form, as clearly seen in the drawing, when not applied. When it is nailed to its place, the bulging rubber will be Vforced into the shallow groove.

It is obvious that this strip 0i' rubber may be maden little thicker than the groove, and be inserted therein straight, which will produce substantially the same etect, but I deem the curved form the best and most practicable.

Having thus fully described my improvement, Il claim- As an article of manufacture, the construction of a weather-strip, on one side Qi` which is inserted, irr a. dove-tail groove, c, a piece of India rubber, or other elastic material, as describod,`and on the other sideof which is inserted a straight strip of India rubber, or other elastic material, bfas and for the purpose herein set forth.

S. TORREY.

Witnesses:

J. J. GREENOUGH,

STEPHEN G. CLARKE. 

